A fun comedy, but that's about it for me
The characters are fun to watch, and the cases are generally interesting. It's light enough to be a good palate cleanser after more emotionally heavy dramas and it's plotted out very episodically too, so it's good for if you don't have time or energy for binge watching.
The supernatural element felt weird to me though, especially since they started out by saying there were no such thing as yao. I think the story would have been a lot stronger and more engaging if the supernatural elements had really all been trickery and powerful people believing in impossible things out of greed.
Also, while the supernatural abilities one of the characters exhibits are useful and even cool sometimes, I just could NOT take the weird cgi anthro-transformation seriously. Every time it happened it completely zeroed out all my investment and tension, which is not great considering they insisted on using it in really tense high-stakes scenes. Seriously you'll be watching along, having a great time, and then suddenly Ryan Ding's cool martial art scene will be replaced by a poorly cgi-ed furry flailing around and meowing incessantly.
Overall for me it was something light and funny to have on in the background, but I couldn't really get at all invested in it.
The supernatural element felt weird to me though, especially since they started out by saying there were no such thing as yao. I think the story would have been a lot stronger and more engaging if the supernatural elements had really all been trickery and powerful people believing in impossible things out of greed.
Also, while the supernatural abilities one of the characters exhibits are useful and even cool sometimes, I just could NOT take the weird cgi anthro-transformation seriously. Every time it happened it completely zeroed out all my investment and tension, which is not great considering they insisted on using it in really tense high-stakes scenes. Seriously you'll be watching along, having a great time, and then suddenly Ryan Ding's cool martial art scene will be replaced by a poorly cgi-ed furry flailing around and meowing incessantly.
Overall for me it was something light and funny to have on in the background, but I couldn't really get at all invested in it.
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